Chapter 147: Bone Cultivation
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Vlad glanced at his own Skeleton's Skill, which he had obtained from his Trial Rewards, a wonderful yet strange Skill that fused the essence of the Blood Demon Skeletons he fought into his own bones, giving his bones the ability to evolve and develop independently from the rest of his weakened, cursed physique.
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[Ancient Blood Demon's Skeleton (S): Lv2]
[Skill EXP]: [7.230/60.000]
A Class Skill bestowed to those who have triumphed over the Trial of the Blood Demon's Legacy. After fighting hundreds of Blood Demon Skeletons, the essence of their crimson bones has been imbued into yours, enhancing your own internal skeleton and making it red-colored, covered by hundreds of Blood Demon Runes that strengthen its durability, flexibility, strength, and regeneration speed, and increase their weight.
With each Skill Level, your Skeleton becomes stronger, increasing their Durability, Flexibility, Strength, Regeneration Speed, and Weight by 30%. The Stats of your own Skeleton are separate from your main Stats and are not affected by any status effect or Curse. (Current Bonus: +60%)
As your Skeleton becomes stronger through fighting, training, and consuming bone-strengthening items, these stats will naturally increase, at the same time as more Blood Demon Runes will appear through your Skeleton, increasing the power of your Blood Demon Transformation based on each Rune by 1%. (Current Bonus: 66%)
Additionally, by infusing Arcana and Blood Energy into your own Skeleton, you can unleash the power of the {Ancient Blood Demon Skeleton Armor And Weapons} using your own bones as Armor and Weapons. Their Defensive Power and Attack Power will be based on your Skeleton Stats plus 20% with each Skill Level. (Current Bonus: +40%)
[Bone Durability]: [1000] -> [2000]
[Bone Flexibility]: [600] -> [1200]
[Bone Strength]: [600] -> [1200]
[Bone Regeneration Speed]: [1000] -> [1500]
[Bone Weight]: [20Kg.] -> [30Kg.]
[Blood Demon Runes]: [50] -> [66]
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"Huh, alright, this is not bad at all; in the last battles I developed quite nicely. Those Dark Spirits did have bones inside, black-colored bones that tasted like charcoal, so I ate plenty of bones too; this must have increased the stats the most, I assume…" He thought, analyzing the Skill's growth. "Also, my Blood Demon Runes increased naturally; that's also pretty great."
Right now, Vlad' Skeleton had become twice as strong by now and almost twice as heavy too, changes he didn't even notice at all due to his constant growth being a commonplace for his body.
"Maybe I should try eating other types of bones; should I look inside my inventory?" He wondered, checking his inventory interior and taking out any bones he could find.
"Oh yeah, there's a lot!"
He quickly clicked on the corpses of various foes and monsters he had stored inside as corpses; there were hundreds. These included the many corpses of the Neburians, alongside the bandits, the jackals he fought underground, and more of the dark spirit bones.
Once he had a pile of bones in his inventory separated from the rest through the inventory's butcher ability, he pulled the pile out and ate it using Gluttony, as it was faster this way.
CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH!
"W-Why are you suddenly eating so many bones out of nowhere?!" Chris looked at Vlad biting on bones one after another, eating them without stopping.
"I have a Skeleton Skill that grows when I eat bones; don't blame me…" Vlad sighed, growing tired of the plain taste of bones.
Eventually, after almost ten minutes, he was done, and this time, he felt the changes within his body instantly, or, well, his skeleton.
Crack, crack…!
CRACK!
"Ugh… Fuck, it hurts?!"
He groaned in pain as he grabbed his chest and arms, feeling pain as he touched them and realizing that was a bad idea.
"P-Paul? What did you do now?!" Chris facepalmed.
"I'm fine! S-Stop exaggerating… I'll be alright, no pain, no gain, as they… say, Ugh!" Vlad groaned.
After having "bone cramps" for five minutes straight, Vlad was finally done with his "bone cultivation," feeling his bones had become larger, denser, and heavier.
Ding!
[You have used the power of Gluttony to devour thousands of different Bones, which have been absorbed by your [Ancient Blood Demon Skeleton]!]
[Your Skeleton's Stats have greatly improved.]
[Your [Bone Durability] has increased by +1.000!]
[Your [Bone Flexibility] has increased by +600!]
[Your [Bone Strength] has increased by +600!]
[Your [Bone Regeneration Speed] has increased by +500!]
[Your [Bone Weight] has increased by +10Kg.!]
[Your [Blood Demon Runes] has increased by +10!]
"The Skill itself didn't level up, but this isn't half bad either…" He thought. "However, I cannot gain more stats eating these bones; I need to find new, stronger monster bones, dammit. Alright, I guess this game sure loves incentivizing me to touch grass and get out of my manor… Once I'm done with all of these threats, I'll go out and explore again."
[Your Bone Stats have developed enough after absorbing the bones of many other beings; you have developed a new {Bone Ability}!]
[You learned the {Bone Ability}: [Bone Construction]: [You can manipulate your own Bones or the Bones you touch using Arcana and Blood Energy to transform their shape and form and combine them into several shapes and for many usages. The Durability and Effects of your own bones are based on your Skeleton's Stats, while other bones are based on their own basic durability. Separating your Bones from your body is now also possible, but you must regrow them again, or you might end up atrophied.]
"A Bone Ability? Seriously? This is… not bad! Interesting even, but it seems to come with some conditions. Though it doesn't specify I can raise them as skeleton soldiers, I could give it a try," thought Vlad with a smile. "Alright, this has been pretty interesting so far. Now let's see the other skill; the secondary growth ability I possess comes from it too, and I've absorbed some of that spiritual energy after all."
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